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So I ordered a small Bacchus head to hang on the wall outside the winery. The idea came from Dan aka Runningwolf. I don't know about these guys or Runningwolf now for that matter. I get a catalog every week in the mail and my email inbox is full of spam from these guys. They also sell some pretty "different" stuff I guess you could say. Like this little jewell of a converstion piece for your living or dining room.........

Thanks Dan!

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I also orderd a bacchus wall hanging and I too get a ton of e-mail from them, they do have some pretty cool stuff, not to sure about that one
 
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Tony, I've always wondered about your avitar. Are those grapes he's holding???
 
Yes, it's grapes. Mike's mind is always in the gutter. It's from a picture I took in the Vatican Sculpture Garden a few years ago.

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Good to "see" you Tony. Always nice to put a face to a name.
 
Don't believe I could look at a statue of two guys doing the ... uhhh ... vertical "96" very long. Then, that could have been the ancient method of Championship Wrestling and that guy was fixing to get a full body slam.... with his hands full. So, both were fixing to be down for the count.

The pic of Tony would have been priceless had this been one of those candid camera moments where they had some kind of valve in the back to turn on some water... well, you know where I'm going with that.
 
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Supposedly the statue is of "Hercules and Diomedes"

A Renaissance image celebrating the strength and beauty of the human form, this museum-quality sculpture depicts one of the twelve mythic labors of Hercules. The artist, a student of Michelangelo, was commissioned to sculpt the myth in which Hercules throws Diomedes to his own man-eating mares. Cast in bonded natural marble, each detail is finished with care.....
 
Supposedly the statue is of "Hercules and Diomedes"

A Renaissance image celebrating the strength and beauty of the human form, this museum-quality sculpture depicts one of the twelve mythic labors of Hercules. The artist, a student of Michelangelo, was commissioned to sculpt the myth in which Hercules throws Diomedes to his own man-eating mares. Cast in bonded natural marble, each detail is finished with care.....

I don't want any man, especially one that is celebrating strength of the human form, hanging on to my boys! :)
 
So in the story Hercules throws Diomedes to the mares but what happens to Hercules's "guys". And knowing what a simple haircut did to Sampson imagine what having his "guys" ripped off did to poor ole Herc.
 
It appears your theory just may "hold up" Tony......


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So in the story Hercules throws Diomedes to the mares but what happens to Hercules's "guys". And knowing what a simple haircut did to Sampson imagine what having his "guys" ripped off did to poor ole Herc.
 

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